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Testimony of Amnon Klein, born in Vienna, Austria, 1928, regarding his experiences in Vienna and his travel to make aliya to Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Amnon Klein, born in Vienna, Austria, 1928, regarding his experiences in Vienna and his travel to make aliya to Eretz Israel His family’s life; his parents’ work; way of life at home; attends school; Jewish community; relations with their neighbors; Shabbat and religious holidays. Annexation of Austria; draft of his mother to labor scrubbing floors; witness' activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement; Kristallnacht; confiscation of valuables and eviction from their apartment; deportation of Jews to Dachau; detention of his father; move to Bratislava with his mother; move to Romania; travel...

File Number : 12247

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dan Hans Georg Reis, born in Dusseldorf, Germany, 1927, regarding his experiences in Vienna, Terezin and Auschwitz

Testimony

Testimony of Dan Hans Georg Reis, born in Dusseldorf, Germany, 1927, regarding his experiences in Vienna, Terezin and Auschwitz Move of his family to Vienna when he is ten months old; his childhood in Vienna; family background; displays of antisemitism; attends the Catholic Piaristen Gymnasium; antisemitism by the teachers and pupils; membership in Maccabi Hatzair. Anschluss; German Nazi occupation; anti-Jewish decrees; atmosphere of terror; expulsion from school; cleaning the streets with toothbrushes; barter between Jews; detention of his father by the Gestapo; activities of the Youth Aliyah school;...

File Number : 11929

Type of Material : Testimony, Film

Language : Hebrew

Three reports by Israel Korzuch, from the city of Sosnowiec, to Schwalb in Geneva on the subject of vocational training for youth

The file contains three reports from March 8, 1941 to October 4, 1941 by Israel Korzuch from the town of Sosnowiec. The letter is addressed to Natan Schwalb in Geneva. The writer discusses professional training in various fields for youth in Upper Silesia, and mentions his close ties with Aron Menczer Of Aliyat HaNoar in Vienna and ORT in Warsaw and Berlin who express appreciation and provide assistance for his work.

File Number : 523

Type of Material : Reports, Letter

Language : German

Correspondence of Aron Menczer with institutions and private people regarding the Kindertransport to England; personal matters; personal conflicts and conflicts within the movement

Correspondence of Aron Menczer with institutions and private people regarding the Kindertransport to England; personal matters and personal conflicts and conflicts within the movement - Correspondence of Aron Menczer with children's institutions in Eretz Israel, the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel and Youth Aliyah in England; personal letters and personal requests to speed up the emigration process for the children; - Disagreements regarding the distribution of visas and legal aliya certificates among the various youth movements according to political indices; - Evaluations of Menczer's activities; -...

File Number : 67

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Letter, Telegram

Language : German

Exhibits of Zionist youth movements

Exhibits of Zionist youth movements - Personal stamp with the first name and last name: Adolf Israel Menczer; - Stamp of the Youth Aliyah Advisory Bureau (Beratungsstelle der Jugendalijah) in Vienna; - Pennant (Wimpel) of the "Lehava" chapter of the Blau-Weiss movement; - Hashomer Hatzair pennant (Wimpel).

File Number : 66

Type of Material : Artifact(s)

Personal documentation belonging to Aron Menczer regarding youth movements in Vienna, correspondence regarding the "Ludowa Affair", lists of those who perished and more

Personal documentation belonging to Aron Menczer regarding youth movements in Vienna, correspondence regarding the "Lodawa Affair", lists of those who perished and more - Collection of articles written by members of the Reut chapter of the Blau-Weiss movement regarding interpersonal relations and the meaning of living together as a human ideal, 1940; - Notizbuch (notebook) with various names organized by Aron Menczer (There are no particulars or practical explanations regarding the nature of the lists); - Collection of thoughtful quotes from the Bible, classical writers, philosophers and thinkers,...

File Number : 64

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons, Official Documentation, Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : German

Personal documentation belonging to Aron Menczer

Personal documentation belonging to Aron Menczer - Unbedenklichkeits Bescheinigung (Exit Visa) issued by the German Treasury Office; - Personal questionnaire for the Central Office for Jewish Emigration; - Gordonia membership notebook, 24 October 1934; - Release certificate from the Doppl labor camp signed by Kucera, the SS man; - Poem/song in honor of Aron Menczer's 24th birthday; Correspondence with Dr. Josef Loewenherz regarding Anton Brunner's efforts to release Menczer from Doppl; - Menczer's correspondence with Martin Vogel, from the Vienna Youth Aliyah office. - A passport of -...

File Number : 63

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Letter

Language : German

Report submitted by the Youth Association Council in Vienna, held 19-20 September 1942 following the disbanding of Youth Aliyah and the Youth Association in Vienna and Aron Menczer's farewell

Report submitted by the Youth Association Council in Vienna, held 19-20 September 1942 following the disbanding of Youth Aliyah and the Youth Association in Vienna and Aron Menczer's farewell - Aron Menczer's appearance at the Council on his return from the Doppl labor camp near Linz, after 18 months absence, and his imminent deportation; - Survey of the situation in the Council and a description of movement activities and its counselors in light of the circumstances at the time and the distress caused by the deportation of the Jews of Vienna; - Farewell meeting of those still left in the movement...

File Number : 62

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Reports

Language : German

Documentation regarding Youth Aliyah and the counseling center for the emigration of immigrant youth to Eretz Israel: Expose ueber die Weiterarbeit der Beratungsstelle fuer Jugendalijah (Report about the Continuation of the Counseling Center for Emigration of Immigrant Youth to Eretz Israel) in Vienna, October 1938; correspondence of Aron Menczer; Youth Aliyah exhibit in Vienna, 1940 and more - Clarifications regarding the continuation of the work of the Youth Aliyah Advisory Office in Vienna (three copies of a copy) signed by M. Schattner; - Protocol between the Zionist Youth Association in Vienna and...

File Number : 61

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Letter, Reports, List of Names

Language : German

Testimony

Joint testimony of Arie Menczer, born in Vienna, Austria, 1906, and his brother, Mordechai Menczer, born in Vienna, Austria, 1908, regarding their Zionist movement experiences until aliya to Eretz Israel in 1939 and 1932. Testimony of Arie Menczer: studies for his doctorate in philosophy at Vienna University; attends a Jewish teachers' seminary; activities as a youth leader in a Zionist youth movement; teaches in Jewish schools; member of the Eretz Israel office; aliya to Eretz Israel with his family, March 1939. Testimony of Mordechai Menczer: active in a Zionist youth movement; a founder of Gordonia;...

File Number : 3913

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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